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1565 August 28 – Sighted land of Florida on St.
– Menéndez returns in triumph to St.

Menéndez’s colonists included some 500 soldiers, 200 seamen, and 100 “others”, who included civilians, clergy and the wives and children of 26 soldiers. All were from Spain. One hundred and thirty eight of the soldiers also held licenses in various crafts and trades, including 10 stonemason
On the Trail of de Soto The Charity Hall Mission St

from the Florida Museum of Natural History
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The Caribbean Archaeology Program was founded in 1960 by Ripley P. Bullen. The program is based around one of the largest systematic collections of pre-Columbian artifacts in North America. What the collection lacks in size is compensated for by its diversity. Contact Us For more informa
Jamaica, Marie-Galante, Martinique, Puerto Rico, St

A new book co-authored by a Florida Museum researcher examines the rich and distinct histories of the Caribbean islands before the arrival of Europeans and presents findings from the first excavation of a Carib culture site. In “The Caribbean before Columbus,” Florida Museum of Natural History Ca
ways the islands, including the Bahamas, Guadalupe, St

The Florida Museum Fish Collection contains more than 236,000 catalogued lots (approximately 2,450,650 specimens), representing more than 9,000 species. In addition, there is an unsorted backlog of about 12,000 lots (about 120,000 specimens). Most of the uncatalogued and backlog material was acquir
Islands, and the Lesser Antilles (Antigua, Grenada, St

The Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is the oldest U.S. military installation on foreign soil. It was established at the end of the Spanish-American war and celebrated its centennial in 2003. Although it recently was relegated to what the Navy terms “minimum pillar” or its lowest level of operati
Republic, Jamaica, Grenada, Trinidad, Puerto Rico and St

The University of Florida Herbarium maintains a non-circulating reference library of publications pertinent to the naming and classification of vascular plants (plant taxonomy and nomenclature). The literature in this collection contains descriptions, geographical ranges and keys for differentiatin
St. Thomas, St. John, St.

Early Foundations Although established in 1917, the Florida Museum of Natural History Fish Collection was small and parochial in character until the late 1950s. Leonard Giovannoli served as part-time curator during the 1930s and 1940s while teaching in the University of Florida Department of Bi
Palm Beach areas; estuarine surveys of the lower St

In late 1891, Peter Henry Rolfs began collecting specimens of wild plants in Florida, essentially marking the formation of the University of Florida Herbarium. The University of Florida Herbarium (FLAS) contains about a half million specimens, including about 350,000 vascular plants, 70,000 bryophy
In 1901, Lucia McCulloch began making herbarium collections